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January 15, 2024

The Regional contests of academic year 2023-2024 have finished. Congratulations to 4 teams from HKU winning totally 1 outstanding local team, 2 gold medals, 2 silver medals and 5 bronze medals!

Septempber 26, 2023

The selection contest for HKU ICPC Team was held on September 6. Congratulations to the top winning students!
The problems came from the coach Qipeng Kuang. If you want to practise the problems, please contact him.

October 7, 2022

The selection contest for HKU ICPC Team was held on October 7. Congratulations to the top winning students!
Final standing; problem set.
The problems came from Southwestern Europe Regional Contest (SWERC) 2020-2021 (Problem A, D, F, K) and Petrozavodsk Programming Camp 2018 - Atcoder (Problem B, D, F).

June 26, 2022

Lucky that we have ACM-HK Programming Contest back into normal this year! The contest was held in The Chinese University of Hong Kong on June 26, 2022. Team "The Sorting Hat says we belong to Azkaban" solved 4 problems out of 7, again "defending" our first runner-up! They also the First to solve problem C!
Final standing can be found here.

October 22, 2021

The selection contest for HKU ICPC/CCPC Team was held on October 20. Congratulations to the 9 winning students!
Final standing; problem set.
The problems came from Nordic Collegiate Programming Contest 2021 (Problem A, C, K), Northwestern Europe Regional Contest 2020 (Problem A, H, G) and UK & Ireland Programming Contest 2020 (Problem E).

August 31, 2020

We are using a new homepage now. You can use the link [Old homepage] to access the old homepage to get the previous materials.
We will keep this homepage up to date, and you can also receive our updates by adding your email into our mailing list in the right side of our homepage.
A new module FAQs has been added and it will be enriched gradually. If you don't find the answer you want in FAQs, please feel free to contact Hao Xie(hxie at connect.hku.hk).

Selected FAQs

What is the International Collegiate Programming Contest(ICPC)?

The International Collegiate Programming Contest is an annual global competitive programming competition. ICPC contests are team competitions, and normally, each team consists of three students. Teams are required to solve 10~14 algorithmic problems by programming, in 5 hours using one computer, and they will be ranked by the problem they solved successfully ('Accept'), and by their penalty when there is a tie.

How can I participant in ICPC? How can I join the HKU Programming Contest team?

ICPC contests are team competition for students representing institutions of higher education. In HKU, for participation, you have to join the HKU Programming Contest team.

Normally, we will conduct a selection contest in September to recruit students for participating in regional contests held between October and December. For the information of the selection contest, you can refer to the homepage of our website.

Selection Contest 2023

Our Selection Contest 2023 was held on Sep. 26, 2023 (Tue). Please look forward to the selection contest next year.

Information Session 2023

Our information session 2023 was held on September 13, 2023 (Wed).
You can download the slides via this link.

Selection Contest for Regionals 2023

Our Selection Contest 2023 was held on Sep. 26, 2023 (Tue). Please look forward to the selection contest next year.

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